A Hidden Radiance 2016
A Hidden Radiance 2016
8m | Short | 2016
Plot:
Casting “A Hidden Radiance,” a fine art photo shoot exploring the Buddhist concept of impermanence based off photographer’s studies at the New York Zen Center and his work as a chaplain. A young man confronts himself at 80. This reckoning with his own mortality will be communicated through a series of postures that speak to the spiritual dimensions of his encounter.
School Ties 1992
School Ties 1992
1h 46m | Drama | Release date: September 18, 1992 (United States)
Storyline:
David Greene is brought into a prestigious 1950s school to help their football team to beat the school’s old rivals. David, however, is from a working class background, so he isn’t really “one of them”, but he’s very successful at making friends. David is a Jew, and has to keep this a secret from his friends for fear of being rejected.
Chin Up, Dude! 2022
Chin Up, Dude! 2022
Steh auf du Sau! (original title)
29m | Short, Sport | Release date: January 20, 2022 (Germany)
Storyline:
Geri has made the leap from the junior team to the first squad. But he can’t find the words to express how greatly he’s intimidated by soccer, the search for meaning, and the pressure to perform.
Paradise 1982
Paradise 1982
1h 40m | Adventure, Romance | Release date: May 7, 1982 (Canada)
Storyline:
In the Victorian period, two teenagers, David and Sarah, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent known as the Jackal raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem. Only David and Sarah narrowly escape, and all the others are slayed in the massacre. Their flight leads them to a beautiful oasis – their paradise – where they discover love and sex. However, the Jackal has not given up on Sarah yet, and David must lure him to his death, or be killed by him.
Keep The River On Your Right 2000
Keep The River On Your Right 2000
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (original title)
1h 33m | Documentary, Adventure, Romance | Release date: April 15, 2000 (United States)
Storyline:
In 1955, while a Fulbright scholar, a Manhattan painter named Tobias Schneebaum spent seven months in the Amazon basin with the Harakambut. When he returned to the US, he could no longer paint. What happened? Nearly 45 years later, filmmakers want Tobias, now 78 and suffering from Parkinson’s, to return to Peru. He refuses but allows that he will revisit the Asmat in New Guinea where he spent an idyllic time years before. That trip goes well, including a serendipitous meeting with Aipit, an aging native and once Tobias’ friend and lover. Tobias then agrees to go to Peru to look for the people whom he joined on a murderous raiding party. The scars of war remain as does fear.
Meine keine Familie 2012
Meine keine Familie 2012
1h 33m | Documentary, Biography | Release date: April 19, 2013 (Austria)
Storyline:
Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In my fathers, my mother and me the director Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, embarks on a personal journey into his past. Including archive material made public for the first time in this film, the director confronts himself and his mother with the question ‘What is family?’.
